What is the last Television series you watched?

[Jay 37,281]

Never heard of it.  Is it good?

[Mephariel 451]

Just finished Mare of Easttown. Great series. Great acting and writing.

[A24 4,326]

 

Lower tier series that I gave up on somewhere in the middle of episode 3.

[JNHFan2000 2,943]

I watched all the 5 seasons for Outlander in the last couple of weeks. Definitely one of my favourite shows.

 

Performances, story, script, production & cinematography are all sooo good.

McCreary's score is amazing as well. Lot's of identifiable themes that you can recognise throughout the series.

 

I'm surprised it hasn't been nominated for more Emmy's throughout the seasons or even won any. Definitely deserving of it!

[JoeinAR 1,949]

On 6/3/2021 at 8:43 AM, Jay said:

Never heard of it.  Is it good?

Yes and i was incorrect. It has 10 episodes so it ends next week

[JNHFan2000 2,943]

Sweet Tooth. Great series. Hope there will be another season! Cast was great. Script was very well put together. Visuals are amazing and the score by Jeff Grace was teriffic. Hope an album comes out.

 

There are some really good, beautiful and well thought out and messages about the times we live in now and what people will do in when faced with certain situations or difficulties. Highly recommended!

[bollemanneke 3,337]

The Simpsons S32E1. They really should replace Marge with someone who doesn't sound ancient.

[Sweeping Strings 2,344]

Yeah, in any clips I've caught of recent episodes Julie Kavner sounds utterly exhausted. And the new voice actor for Dr Hibbert distractingly sounds nothing like Harry Shearer's voice for him, because world's-gone-mad reasons. 

These things combined with the ever-declining writing would be big 'red flags' to a lot of other shows, but The Simpsons limps on interminably.  

  

[Edmilson 7,384]

6 hours ago, bollemanneke said:

The Simpsons S32E1. They really should replace Marge with someone who doesn't sound ancient.

In Brazil this situation is even weirder, because Marge has used the same voice actress in Portuguese since the early days of the show. Meanwhile, Homer had 3 or 4 voice actors, and the current is clearly a lot younger than Marge's VA. So she doesn't sound like Homer's wife, more like his grandmother. 

 

Bart's current VA is on the job since the early 2000s, and since he's no longer a kid so Bart doesn't sound like a 10-year-old, more like a 25-year-old.

[bollemanneke 3,337]

6 hours ago, Sweeping Strings said:

the new voice actor for Dr Hibbert distractingly sounds nothing like Harry Shearer's voice for him

Is now a good time to confess I never even knew Hibbert was black until the whole madness broke loose? I can't wait to hear this new guy...

[bruce marshall 1,314]

Was there ever season three of SALEM?

I think I watched two seasons

[bruce marshall 1,314]

Two eps into UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.

Phew! Depressing as hell and not really about the topic. Plus, it's way over directed. Maybe, a simpler style would serve the story BETTER?

On 4/29/2021 at 7:28 PM, Unlucky Bastard said:

Ugh those new Twin Peaks albums are mastered horribly.

God, I.miss this guy#😅

[bruce marshall 1,314]

I bailed on Underground Railroad 2/3 thru episode three.

Switched to GODFATHER OF HARLEM on Epic.

 

Much better

[A24 4,326]

Yeah, Black Summer S2 is available today! Best zombie show on the planet!

 

 

[rough cut 1,714]

Superman & Lois

E01-E10

 

You finally broke me.

 

I’ve always pushed through, given the creator/creators the benefit of the doubt when I didn’t enjoy how things were going, sticking it out till the end, because - you never know! - even a bad thing might turn ‘round in its final chapter.

 

But here it is. The first time I’ve thrown in the gauntlet before I know how it ends.

 

You finally broke me, Superman & Lois.

 

I am a massive Superman fan. I dressed up as the man of steel as a kid, I read every comic, I’ve seen every episode of Smallville (and even Lois & Clark). Even though I don’t agree with Snyder’s Man Of Steel - I judge it as misguided and a bad Superman-movie, but not a bad movie in itself; Snyder just doesn’t “get” Superman in my eyes - I’ve still seen the movie from start to finish. Of course! More than once I might add, just to make sure I wasn’t mistaken first time around.

But no more.

 

Superman & Lois is just such a poorly written show, that it doesn’t matter that they “kind of” got Superman right... it’s such a haphazardly written show that I can’t take it any more and to be honest, it tarnishes the legacy of Superman just by putting him in such a sub-par storyline, underwhelming script, fish eyes actors and piss poor execution that I think it might have - for real - left scar on my physical heart, beating woundedly in my chest, beneath my Superman crested T-shirt.

 

So I stopped mid-episode. I can’t take it anymore. It hurts too much. It’s not good. No, it’s worse... it’s bad. To the point that I can’t keep watching. Which is a first. And it’s not a good feeling.

 

Especially since we’re not talking about a random Netflix show I couldn’t care less about that we’ve all watched a million of. No. We’re talking about Superman.

 

You made me turn off Superman. Mid-episode. Like, WTF?

 

Superman & Lois... I am a little more cynical because of you, a little less naive, a little less hopeful.

 

I’ve finished every book I ever started, seen every movie till the end, watched every episode of every series I ever started - no matter how bad it might’ve been. But no more.

 

Superman & Lois, you finally broke me.

[HunterTech 987]

I thought that was supposed to be the good one of the current stuff? Or am I to suppose that the CW DC shows have gotten so progressively bad that it's finally broken people into liking its newest addition?

 

Something something "at least it isn't Snyder, so I have to like it to get WB to notice what we actually want."

[Edmilson 7,384]

I gave up watching these DC shows a few years ago. All of them are pure shite. 

 

The last one I watched was Titans, and it was an abomination. It tried to be "edgy and dark", but it actually comes across as a parody of the Nolan/Snyder superhero movies. 

[HunterTech 987]

That one has nothing to do with the CW, but it might as well have come out of the same production company.

 

Apparently Doom Patrol has quite a lot of fans, so if I ever were to watch one of them, it'd be that one (plus the Superman one out of morbid curiosity).

[Marian Schedenig 8,172]

Currently watching Life, the 2009 BBC documentary series narrated by David Attenborough. I'd picked it up on Blu-ray years ago, but for some reason never made it past the first two episodes or so.

 

Here's a brilliantly edited segment, with a perfectly spotted score by George Fenton:

 

[A24 4,326]

 

 

Wow! Episode 1 of Black Summer S2 felt like the first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan but then with rabies infected zombies. Intense! 

[JoeinAR 1,949]

Just a Z nation rehash shoot-em up. I let David watch and I left the room.

[A24 4,326]

 

Eh, Black Summer couldn't be more the opposite of Z Nation, which is suppose to be a funny, yet dumb and idiotic zombie show.  It's like you just write things without really knowing what you are talking about, Joe. 

 

[Jay 37,281]

 

Godless

 

Wow!  I've been meaning to watch this miniseries since it came out in 2017 and this spring we finally did so.  I was hooked right away and loved it to the end.  This is slow pacing done right!  Every character is so well developed, every story has a nice beginning, middle, and end with interesting developments along the way.  All the acting is exceptionally good (in particular Michelle Dockery, Scoot McNairy, Merritt Wever, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Sam Waterston, and Jeff Daniels), the cinematography, directing, and production design are all top notch as well.

 

One of the things that is so good about is even though you know its building up to this inevitable giant action shootout in the town, by the time you get there in the last episode you truly care about everyone involved: Some you hope live, some you hope die, etc: But everyone involved has had meaningful character moments that stick with you, you know everyone's story.

This is exceptionally good television.

 

I was not surprised to learn after it was over that the guy who wrote and directed every episode - Scott Frank - also wrote and directed every episode of The Queen's Gambit.  This guy found a great niche for himself, as both those miniseries are great!

[A24 4,326]

The finale of Black Summer Season 2 was, again, intense, and it certainly contains the best action scene I've seen in a long time (Yes, screw Zack Snyder and his Army Of The Dead!). Apparently, the people who weren't much into S1 are finding this season heaps better. Some even say it's how HBO's upcoming The Last Of Us should be. So yeah, season 3 is quite inevitable. No, it's not perfect but the show does get a lot of things right. One thing that is pretty unusual is that it's totally not a show about people or characters (you don't have to listen to boring stories of characters telling you their life story). It's a gritty survival show about a post-apocalyptic world filled with 'infected' (al la 28 Days Later). So no 'recreational' zombie slaying here. 

 

[bollemanneke 3,337]

Better call Saul, final episode. Kim is such an unrealistic character.

[Jay 37,281]

 

Alias Grace

 

Meh!  I was hoping this'd be another great Netflix miniseries after Queen's Gambit and Godless, but it really wasn't.  It started out promising enough; The plot involves an Irish woman living in Canda in the 1840s/50s who is in jail for murder; As a doctor interviews her, we get flashbacks to her immigration and various jobs that lead up to the murder, and you don't know what is real and what she may be making up....

 

... but unfortunately after 5 episodes of setup building and building, I found all the final reveals and explanations in episode 6 to be slow, laborious, and just not very interesting, which kind of made the whole affair a bit pointless in retrospect.

 

Sarah Gadon was completely fantastic as the main character, and I had JUST seen her shine in Black Bear shortly before watching this so count me a new fan of hers; I honestly never would have even realized it was the same actor in both projects, she is so completely different between them.  She's got range!

 

Anna Paquin, David Cronenberg, and Zachary Levi were all pretty good too, but the guy interviewing her in every episode was a total dud.

 

It's free on Netflix

[Yavar Moradi 2,585]

On 6/23/2021 at 1:15 PM, Jay said:

 

Godless

 

Wow!  I've been meaning to watch this miniseries since it came out in 2017 and this spring we finally did so.  I was hooked right away and loved it to the end.  This is slow pacing done right!  Every character is so well developed, every story has a nice beginning, middle, and end with interesting developments along the way.  All the acting is exceptionally good (in particular Michelle Dockery, Scoot McNairy, Merritt Wever, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Sam Waterston, and Jeff Daniels), the cinematography, directing, and production design are all top notch as well.

 

One of the things that is so good about is even though you know its building up to this inevitable giant action shootout in the town, by the time you get there in the last episode you truly care about everyone involved: Some you hope live, some you hope die, etc: But everyone involved has had meaningful character moments that stick with you, you know everyone's story.

This is exceptionally good television.

 

I was not surprised to learn after it was over that the guy who wrote and directed every episode - Scott Frank - also wrote and directed every episode of The Queen's Gambit.  This guy found a great niche for himself, as both those miniseries are great!

 

I completely agree with you about both miniseries, and both scores by Carlos Rafael Rivera. I'm not sure which of the two I like better, to be honest -- they're so different. By the way Jay if you have time to listen to a podcast, please check out this in-depth conversation The Goldsmith Odyssey had with Carlos -- about half of it is on The Queen's Gambit but we discuss Godless for a decent chunk too:
https://goldsmithodyssey.buzzsprout.com/159614/6049561-odyssey-interviews-carlos-rafael-rivera

 

Lots of major insights into his music.

 

Yavar

[Edmilson 7,384]

Lovecraft Country will not return for a second season on HBO:

 

https://deadline.com/2021/07/lovecraft-country-cancelled-misha-green-reaction-season-2-tease-hbo-1234785945/

 

I watched all 10 episodes and I didn't care for the show. The first episode was good, but then it was downhill after that, with a boring plot involving witches, wizards, magic books, time travel and other fantasy shenanigans.

 

I kept waiting for the moment the series would justify its name and introduce Cthulhu, Yog Sothoth etc 

 

If anyone wants to know what season 2 would've been about:

 

Spoiler

 

 

[KK 3,307]

Never watched the show, but the score was pretty ambitious and interesting.

[bollemanneke 3,337]

Westworld, s2e3. Is it really so difficult to tell your story in a way that makes sense and allows the viewer to watch one episode a week without getting utterly confused?

[Jay 37,281]

They could have gone that way, but chose this way in purpose its not that they couldn't make a straightforward narrative, it's that they didn't want to.

 

It all makes sense by the final episode. 

[Edmilson 7,384]

I loved Westworld's first two seasons, warts and all. The third, however, starts decently but then it gets messier and worst. The finale is simply horrible.

[A24 4,326]

Only watched S1 of Westworld and that took me a lot of effort. Not a fan at all.

[JoeinAR 1,949]

Its Shark Week so people are on the menu.

 

[Positivatee 327]

On 7/5/2021 at 11:00 AM, Edmilson said:

I loved Westworld's first two seasons, warts and all. The third, however, starts decently but then it gets messier and worst. The finale is simply horrible.

 

We finished S3 this weekend. 

 

I don't think there needs to be a Season 4. The hot mess that was S3 needs nothing more added.

 

The show jumped the shark when they retconned the oldest Hemsworth brother to be a host since Day One.

 

I think I was supposed to have feels when Bernard pretended to comfort the lady from Firefly as Arnold. Nothing.

 

This should be S4: The hosts escape Earth and become Cyclons. There, the end. 

 

Can we get a show where Vincent Cassel (the French mastermind villain in S3) and Giancarlo Esposito just try to outfox each other with their hot exotic accents? Please! 

 

Can I just say that Ben Barnes is a beautiful man that I've got a man crush on? I wish he hadn't been such a douche canoe in this show. Gimme more Shadow and Bone now. Should I watch Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, or just listen to the Iron Maiden? 

 

OMG, that was Marshawn Lynch? He was just there so he wouldn't get fired. 

[mstrox 6,643]

Was gonna post this in my own thread but figured I’d venture into one of these massive unreadable What’s the Last threads so more of you will see it.  I Think You Should Leave Season 2 is now on Netflix and it’s real good.  Ok, bye!

[A24 4,326]

 

Watched 1 and a half episode but it's not for me. I'm probably the only one in the world who isn't a fan of that sombre Nordic atmosphere.

 

 

So I switched to this DC tale instead. Not bad. Let's see what episode 2 will bring. 

[Jay 37,281]

 

Mare of Easttown

 

A big surprise here!  This turned out to be an extremely well made slow burn thriller.  It's ostensibly about Kate Winslet trying to solve a murder in small town Pennslyvania, but the burn is so slow the entire first episode is just introducing you to all the various characters, with the victim not even being dead until literally the final 10 seconds or so of it.

 

Kate Winslet is exceptionally good as the weary small town detective with many burdens from past events, Jean Smart is her usually terrific self as her mother, Angourie Rice (Ned's girlfriend from Far From Home) is also very good as her daughter with her own burdens.  Guy Pearce weaves in and out as a love interest, Evan Peters shows up as a county detective assigned to help the investigation, and even Roy from The Office turns out to be a fantastic dramatic actor as Mare's ex-husband.  There's lots of other characters too who are all well defined and memorable.

 

The investigation is always interesting, full of both twists and turns you kind of see coming and ones you really don't, which is always nice.  The details in the set and costume design as well as the accents really bring western Pennslyvania alive, which was really cool.

 

One of the best miniseries in recent years.  Every episode was directed by Craig Zobel, who directed two of the best movies of the 2010s (Compliance and The Hunt), so he's one to continue to follow for me.

 

I just hope HBO doesn't try to turn this into an ongoing series.

[DeltaPupJux 47]

Currently (re)watching some older series on dvd.  

Most recent watch was "Surface".  

Current watch is "NCIS: S3".

[bollemanneke 3,337]

Simpsons, 32.10. THEY CHANGED CARL'S VOICE TOO?! Oh Jesus...

[Sweeping Strings 2,344]

Is it as bad as the Dr Hibbert change?   

[Marian Schedenig 8,172]

I currently have a one month Amazon Prime test subscription, so I've been catching up with some exclusives that seem unlikely to get a Blu release.

 

First I watched Carnival Row, which I liked a lot. Good atmosphere, a nice cast - Bloom may a bit heavy on nervous overacting, but its nice to see him successfully play a brooding character. Jared Harris is always a bonus of course. The faerie/cyberpunk setting filmed in the Czech Republic works well for me because all the official/more pompous buildings could be straight out of 19th century Vienna and help to ground the whole thing. And the overall concept is a good example of how fantasy can serve as a natural vehicle for issues like class and race conflicts. The season finale goes a bit over the top by trying to cram to much into an exciting finish - a bit heavy on payoff porn after a whole season of buildup. That's more to do with the pacing and splitting into episodes than with the story, though, and I'm looking forward to S2.

 

Afterwards I watched S1 of The Terror, which I finished yesterday. Mostly excellent, except… I don't really see the point of the monster (not-so-)subplot. IN other words, the whole thing would have worked just as well without the monster, with no more than minor tweaks to the story, and it would still have been excellent, or even more so without the supernatural horror element. It just seemed out of place for me. I loved the rest though - very good atmosphere and a brilliant cast. I wasn't aware that Jared Harris was in this as well, but it ended up being probably the best role I've seen him in yet.

[rough cut 1,714]

On 7/3/2021 at 5:50 PM, Edmilson said:

Lovecraft Country will not return for a second season on HBO:

 

https://deadline.com/2021/07/lovecraft-country-cancelled-misha-green-reaction-season-2-tease-hbo-1234785945/

 

I watched all 10 episodes and I didn't care for the show. The first episode was good, but then it was downhill after that, with a boring plot involving witches, wizards, magic books, time travel and other fantasy shenanigans.

Yup, I also wasn’t smitten by Lovecraft Country.

 

17 minutes ago, Marian Schedenig said:

Afterwards I watched S1 of The Terror, which I finished yesterday. Mostly excellent, except… I don't really see the point of the monster (not-so-)subplot. IN other words, the whole thing would have worked just as well without the monster, with no more than minor tweaks to the story, and it would still have been excellent, or even more so without the supernatural horror element. It just seemed out of place for me. I loved the rest though - very good atmosphere and a brilliant cast. I wasn't aware that Jared Harris was in this as well, but it ended up being probably the best role I've seen him in yet.

I read the book and it was good. The series is good too, but I understand your criticism about the monster. It’s better done in the book. It’s written as a kind of alternate history about what “really” happened on that lost expedition.

 

“The expedition met with disaster after both ships and their crews, a total of 129 officers and men, became icebound in Victoria Strait near King William Island, in what is today the Canadian territory of Nunavut. /—-/ The survivors, now led by Franklin's second-in-command, Francis Crozier and Erebus' captain James Fitzjames, set out for the Canadian mainland and disappeared.”

 

Wikipedia: Franklin’s lost expedition 1845

 

Just like the show it’s a slow burner, but it makes more sense in its literal form.

 

Best enjoyed with a dram and a smoke, naturally.

 

 

[A24 4,326]

57 minutes ago, Marian Schedenig said:

Afterwards I watched S1 of The Terror, which I finished yesterday. Mostly excellent, except… I don't really see the point of the monster (not-so-)subplot. IN other words, the whole thing would have worked just as well without the monster, with no more than minor tweaks to the story, and it would still have been excellent, or even more so without the supernatural horror element. It just seemed out of place for me. I loved the rest though - very good atmosphere and a brilliant cast. I wasn't aware that Jared Harris was in this as well, but it ended up being probably the best role I've seen him in yet.

 

Completely agree with everything you said here, Marian. The idea of a possible monster lurking somewhere was good but they should have kept it vague and mysterious. But yes, Jared Harris' best role so far. And I agree with Ridley Scott, the diving scene (in the first episode) was particularly impressive. 

 

Also, Jared Harris vs Cirian Hinds ... does it get any better?!

[Marian Schedenig 8,172]

I was surprised when Hinds died so early into the series and Harris became the main character.

 

I'm interested in the book. My issue with the monster comes primarily from my feeling that aside from that particularly story strain, everything else seems very "authentic", and most of the real drama and character motivations are derived from that anyway. But yes, I would much more easily have accepted a vague superstitious threat of a "monster" that never becomes more than could credibly be viewed as simply the superstitious overimagination of a terrified crew.

 

I don't know anything about S2 and have no particular interest in it, but I'd love to see that show's take on the Dyatlov Pass incident.

21 minutes ago, rough cut said:

Best enjoyed with a dram and a smoke, naturally.

 

Wouldn't a whiskey be better suited for Crozier's story?

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Over the past couple months I finished Silicon Valley.

 

Overall a fun and enjoyable show, but the first two seasons are by far the best, in my opinion. 

[rough cut 1,714]

3 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said:

Wouldn't a whiskey be better suited for Crozier's story?

Well spotted! It would for sure. The whisky on the pic makes no sense in context to the story.

 

I do do that from time to time - match the dram with the media, that is - for example my first listen of the expanded Far And Away...

[Jay 37,281]

3 hours ago, Koray Savas said:

Over the past couple months I finished Silicon Valley.

 

Overall a fun and enjoyable show, but the first two seasons are by far the best, in my opinion. 

 

I think that's everyone's opinion

[A24 4,326]

 

I didn't like Sweet Tooth after all. It's a kids show. First episode is okay but things get too familiar when the journey starts. 

[A24 4,326]

 

Tried to watch the first episode (Anne Hathaway) but had to bail after 10 minutes. Way too annoying!